Satan is inconsistent. He persuades a man not to go to a synagogue on a cold morning; yet when the man does go, he follows him into it.

To discover and to teach are distinct functions; they are also distinct gifts, and are not commonly found united in the same person.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via, as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

When men understand what each other mean, they see, for the most part, that controversy is either superfluous or hopeless

All men have a reason, but not all men can give a reason.

From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery.